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Post by featherduster on Jan 29, 2019 13:39:41 GMT -5
With a foot of snow and temps at or below 0 they could use a little handout for the next few days.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2019 13:41:52 GMT -5
Good thing deer have 3 stomachs. They can handle a few days of snow cover.
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Post by jimstc on Jan 30, 2019 8:34:37 GMT -5
Have four feeders hanging on the porch and three suet holders and food on the ground for the doves.
Looks like O'Hare for birds. Easily 50 at a time feeding
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Post by HighCotton on Jan 30, 2019 8:49:56 GMT -5
Dozens of robins eating berries at an I-74 rest stop yesterday near Lizton. Not all of them migrate!  |
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Post by featherduster on Jan 30, 2019 11:21:31 GMT -5
The wife saw several Robins near Westville yesterday.
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Post by esshup on Jan 31, 2019 10:24:02 GMT -5
They might have migrated down from Canada where everything is covered with snow. Or the upper USA.
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Post by featherduster on Jan 31, 2019 10:41:44 GMT -5
I have been putting 2 x-large cups of oiled sunflower seeds a day in the feeder along with a wood pecker bar and a suet bar. I believe we are hosting every Blue Jay in a 2 county area at the feeder, the wife counted 15 at one time. Giving someone a bird feeder and a supply of seed makes a great gift.  |
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Post by esshup on Feb 1, 2019 2:07:26 GMT -5
One year when I was a teenager, we had a bunch of snow and the starlings mobbed the birdfeeder. I went to work with the pellet gun, and the snow under the bird feeder was pretty red. Once they got thinned out the songbirds returned.
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Post by featherduster on Feb 1, 2019 7:29:42 GMT -5
If you feed strictly oiled sunflower seeds on a platform feeder then hang a wood pecker bar and/or a suet bar you will enjoy the beautiful birds.
Don't buy blended or mixed seeds because they attract the undesirable birds and they just scatter seeds everywhere.
The down side to having an active feeder is it attracts the Cooper Hawks.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 7:59:02 GMT -5
I stopped feeding the birds about 5 years ago and now I have more than before. With no starlings and house sparrows the native birds have taken off and are flourishing. House sparrows are the worst and starling are no better.
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